Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

From A Christian Critique of the University by Charles Habib Malik. He writes this in response to some of Socrates' discoursing on the understanding of life and meaning. Being developed in a chapter on the futility of Science to explain the world via materialistic empirical approaches such as the theory of Evolution, Malik demonstrates that Socrates, in his insatiable search for understanding pure causes, knew that physical causes could not explain the supra-natural elements of mankind such as Justice, Beauty, Love, Mind, etc. "Groping for the living God. Considering the existential circumstances under which it was said , and who said it, and who recorded the saying for all time, what Socrates is saying here is probably the noblest intellectual cry that has come down to us from the heathen world. Nothing closer to God then than his cry. There is unutterable, hidden suffering underneath. Total disenchantment with this world. The heart craves, demands, cries for ...

Religious Attractions: THE POWER OF YOU: only in America There is no denying that faiths (plural) evolve, but none is so agile, skilled, and societal-driven as the corporate-christian mentality scattered somewhere between cookie-cutter subdivisions and high-rise foreclosure institutions. This Faith (american religion) super-evolves with the current of popular American culture. Actually, it must, or this Faith will die (that is, that particular "brand" will shrivel as the funding will deplete and the monies find themselves in the pockets of other open-handed religious entrepreneurs). Since most Americans have cast aside any associations to Church Tradition and/ or Church Authority, professing Christian-lites, who are happy to exercise their right to wield the "power of the consumer", shop around until they happen upon "the right fit or feel." Where else in the world would someone travel 30 miles in one direction to a church when there are at least 50 churc...